Voter's Preferred Choice vs Lower Choices

[Donald E Davison]

Dear Markus Schulze,

     My statement does seem to point towards elimination. Although it could
also apply to Withdrawal and maybe Condorcet.

     In Condorcet your lower choices do not directly help defeat your first
choice, but your lower choices will help a second candidate defeat a third
candidate, while the lower choices of the third candidate will help the
second candidate defeat your first choice candidate.
     It is sort of a mutual suicide pact - your shoot me and I'll shoot you.

     I'll have to think about your request, but offhand I do not have any
idea as to how to word it differently.

Donald,

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>Dear Donald,
>
>you wrote (24 Feb 1999):
>> The voter wants the full weight of his vote to be on
>> his most preferred choice as long as his first choice
>> is a contender.
>
>This criterion sounds interesting. To be able to apply
>your criterion to other election methods than successive
>elimination methods, could you -please- define this
>criterion in such a way that it doesn't presuppose that
>a successive elimination method is used?
>
>Markus Schulze

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